IDG Contributor Network: JavaScript as the language of the cloud
Since my last post, I had an opportunity at work to take over the responsibilities for a couple of Web apps. I also implemented one from scratch. The last time I had anything to do with JavaScript was over a decade ago. The browsers were weak and JavaScript support was not standard. Web pages were rendered using server-side templates and all business logic happened on the server.
A decade in the software industry is like a century in other fields. Browsers are no longer dumb terminals, and JavaScript has emerged as a tool for building cross-platform apps. Expensive and bloated Java application servers declined in popularity years ago. Node has emerged as a platform for server-side JavaScript.
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